Gentle Ladies, and Gentle Men
As your well-wisher. I thought it good that I write you all a letter to warn you of a new Killing Machine in town. Since you may, or may not, know what they look like, I thought I would add in a photograph of my humble Samsung mobile phone. This letter, however, pertains to all mobile phones.
On the one hand, they are useful machines, as they allow us to communicate with each other. They have all sorts of Apps bundled into them, and while these are useful, they drain your phone battery. This means, that your battery dies on you, when you need it the most. Alternatively, you could buy additional chargers and battery packs, thereby killing your bank balance.
What also helps to kill your bank balance, is the fact that these Apps use a lot of data space, which is not cheap. Think about it.
We can communicate oh so easily now. Through phone calls, text messages, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatApp, etc etc. We are always communicating so much through the screen that we forget what our companion’s voice sounds like, and what the expression in their eye’s look like.
Yes, we communicate, but we kill the habit of face to face communication. There may come a time when future generations will marry their cell phones.
Communication, as you know is a full time job. God forbid that other activities like driving be allowed to intrude upon our phone time. Sadly, the Apps do not have the ability to provide medical care when you have an accident, break your bones and car. But, in the future, there will be an App for this. Never fear, if you are not killed in a car accident, you will live to see the day when this App is born.
Did I, at the start of this letter, call the mobile phone a Killing Machine. Begging your pardon, kind ladies and gents, if I have disturbed your sensibilities.
Please don’t kill me with the Apps on your mobile phones.
Kind regards
Vlad The Bad.
(Vlad The Bad is the new avatar of the Shah Of Blah)
They are seductive, these killing machines. We think we love them, but in fact, they are our masters and we are their slaves. 🙂
Well….only use it when you need it. I know that’s very hard for most people….but you have to think of what’s more important….your communication & emotions for real people or an inanimate object.
True.. I changed my Flickr account again
Yep… This is what one Aussie gent in Australia told me once.. Who are the masters, he asked..
For next month, I shall work on BR Ambedkar
I don’t have one. The ‘cell’ phone. How utterly Neanderthal of me…
How very good of you! I told my kids that, once they start working, I shall chuck my cell phone away. Let’s see
I watch people in my neighborhood and their attachments to the silly things. Maybe they should screw the devices to their heads. I don’t think life is meant to be lived that way. That is just me.
On an unrelated note – more black and white imagery please. You work is powerfully dynamic.
More black & white? Done!
Thank You for this warning, my Dear Rajiv! Do have a ‘smart’ phone, but Alas, am not smart enough to know how to use it, even properly! So there.
Do apps drain the battery even when those apps are not installed or used? Would be glad if You would enlighten me.
When used, they drain them fast
Thanks for that info! 🙂
See, even on the computer, I succeed in pressing the wrong things! Wanted to press the up arrow near the ‘send,’ but…
Now, if Vlad has to be ‘bad,’ then I prefer the Shah Of Blah, please! Just Joking. Love and Regards. 🙂
Well, the Shah of Blah was used by Salman Rushdie… Therefore, Vlad The Bad!
How about Vlad the Glad?! Would suit You Better! 🙂
No, no… Vlad The Bad has a touch of something about it!
Okay! Whatever speaks to the Heart! 🙂